During Superbowl week its easy for other sports stories to be overshadowed. I couldn't ignore this one. Gil Meche, 32-year-old pitcher for the Kansas City Royals has retired. He has walked away from a guaranteed $12.4 million dollars that was due to him for the last year of his contract. To put that into perspective, that's enough to buy 2.5 million five-dollar foot longs from subway or 885,714 Hanalei rolls, my favorite sushi dish. It's amazing in today's sports world to see a pro-athlete leave money on the table, especially money that the organization wasn't asking for back. Earlier this week, I flipped on ESPN and watched contract negotiations get tense between St.Louis Cardinals superstar Albert Pujols and his club. Anyone who has ever covered or dealt with Pujols always says he is a different kind of cat. People around him state how he is a spiritual man who doesn't put money as his priority. Well, we had Pujols give an ultimatum to his Cardinals this we...
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